A Really Cool Cat...Teacher

For my final podcast, I again chose a link from Edutopia, I just love the visual component!  This one was titled: Harness your Students Digital Smarts. Here we meet Vicky Davis, a technology teacher from Camilla, GA, a really rural area. Vicky Davis is the recipient of the 2008 Edublog award for "Best Teacher Blog in the World." Her blog can be found at CoolCatTeacher.

In the video we see high school students using the technology that they are very comfortable with in the classroom such as cell phones, iPod Touches and computers. She states that every child can learn, but with only paper and only pencils, only a certain type of child can succeed. Her teaching focuses on:

• how to learn new software
• learning how to learn
• how to blog effectively
• how to collaborate effectively 
• being comfortable with any kind of technology.

She and her friend Julie Lindsay (who is in Qatar) started the global collaborative project Digi Teen, where students from around the world learn about digital citizenship.

This teacher has taken a school from rural Georgia and has connected it to the world. I think that is pretty cool.  It is teachers like Vicky Davis that are pioneering the way for integrating technology into our schools.